STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 185.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Deputy of the Governor-General, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixteenth day of July, 1919.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

For Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations as Amended to this Date.

After regulation 55 of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations, the following regulation is added:—

Property of Internees may be vested in Public Trustee.

“56.—(1) Any person or company who or which holds or manages for or on behalf of a person—

(a) who is interned or has been deported under the provisions of any Order or Regulation made under the War Precautions Act 1914-1918; and

(b) who is an enemy subject,

any property, real or personal, shall, within one month after the commencement of this regulation, or, if the property comes into his possession or under his control after the commencement of this regulation, then within one month after the time when it comes into his possession or under his control, by notice in writing communicate the fact to the Public Trustee appointed in pursuance of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1914-1916, and shall furnish the Public Trustee with such particulars in relation thereto as the Public Trustee requires.

“(2) In the case of—

(a) any balances or deposits standing to the credit of the interned person or deportee, as the case may be, at a bank; and

(b) any debt which is due to the interned person, or deportee, as the case may be;

the bank or debtor, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, be deemed to be a company or person holding or managing property for or on behalf of the interned person or deportee, as the case may be.

“(3) The Minister of State for Trade and Customs may by order vest in the Public Trustee any property of an interned person or deportee, and upon the making of the order, the property shall be dealt with in the same manner as property of enemy subjects vested in the Public Trustee under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1914-1916, and the provisions of that Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to the property as if it were property vested in the Public Trustee under that Act.

“(4) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.”

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